NBC News White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor is being slammed on social media after making biased comments against Republicans.
During an interview on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House,” Alcindor brazenly accused the Right of racism over Georgia’s “Election Integrity Act.”
NBC’s @Yamiche on Ga.’s “voter suppression laws”:
Republicans think “these black people don’t deserve the access to citizenship in the way that other Americans do, that they haven’t worked for it and they don’t understand the weight of American democracy.” pic.twitter.com/UdIuiXGjed
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 23, 2022
“They took access absolutely because of a lie, but also I would say that there also is racism in there,” she said. “And the racism is a lie.”
She went on to say that Republicans think that “these black people don’t deserve the access to citizenship in the way that other Americans do, that they haven’t worked for it and they don’t understand, sort of, the weight of American democracy and as a result we need to make decisions for them.”
Twitter users lambasted Alcindor for dishonest and one-sided framing of the voter rights issue.
“What an insanely dishonest person. We already know that her claims about the GA voting law were false based on current turnout and registration levels, but then to also use those falsehoods to smear political opponents as racist is deplorable. PBS and NBC News should be ashamed,” wrote one user.
“I dare them to find one real human being actually saying that. They can’t,” said another.
This comes after U.S. House Republicans sent Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger a letter expressing concern about a recent report on a voter-education initiative led by Stacey Abrams that teaches students that the state’s new laws restrict voting.
According to documents obtained by Fox News, Atlanta high school students were reportedly asked to attend a democracy class put on by the Abram’s New Georgia Project, which focuses on “voting rights.”
The Election Integrity Act, which was signed into law in 2021, imposes a voter ID requirement, expands early voting in most of the state’s counties, requires that counties have at least one absentee voting dropbox, and shifts more control over election administration to the state legislature.
Abrams has called the legislation “racist” and “a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie.”
“In fact, the secretary of state and the governor went to great pains to assure America that Georgia’s elections were secure,” she said at the time. “And so the only connection that we can find is that more people of color voted and it changed the outcome of elections in a direction that Republicans do not like.”
